Sunday 29 March 2020

Sunday 29th March

Week One

................................or is it  week two.  
Week one for official lock down, how are you all doing?  

Are you all surviving?  

What have you been doing?

I listen to Radio4Extra on the i-player - currently listening to the unabridged "proper" version of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse.  Circa-1993.
Still not concentrating properly though......

Last Saturday, and I'm still here to tell the tale..........  
I made Mac & Cheese, nothing unusual in that you would say but............


Pasta dated March 2018
The Christmas 2018 we thought my husband was recovering.  He helped me to sort the larder and and we sorted stuff in date order.  This was put onto the bottom shelf to be used first but as they say life got in the way in 2019 with one thing or another.


Cheese dated 6th February.  
Was given to me last November because my son and family were going out to New Zealand.  

The milk was fresh and I chopped a tomato to put inside (try it it's quite nice and doesn't dry out like on top) the Mac & Cheese I had fresh milk and some flour.


Doesn't look much here but it was delicious!

I have also been having this on my toast in the mornings


Robertson's Ginger Shred dated May 2018

The jar had never been opened.  I must have bought it to use in ginger cake.

I have been crafting but not going to show till I have finished.  Is there anyone else like me?  If I show a work in progress it tends to go on the "unfinished pile" or the "never to see the light of day again" pile and I have a few of both.  

I know I showed this the other day.  It is being finished slowly amongst other things but don't work on it everyday as I gave the recipients a photo of it as a Christmas present so it had been promised and so it will get finished!  I just didn't have time to finish before Christmas.










Monday 16 March 2020

Monday 16th March

Well if we are going to be confined to home life..........  I think I'll try use all my fabric I have and make more lap quilts

Last year I made lap quilts for everyone who was there for me.  











Wednesday 11 March 2020

Wednesday 11th March,

Just over one week into March.  I don't seem to have done much......  
I'm listening to  BBC Radio 4extra whilst typing this.  I'm listening to D H Lawrence's The Rainbow.  I'm not sure I'm taking it in whilst listening.  I haven't been able to pick up a book for a while now.  I just cannot concentrate on anything.  

I have been quilting though.  January 2018 I treated myself to block of the month from Sew and Quilt.  I never started it until 1st July 2018 and it got me through quite a few bad days and daily hour and half long journeys early in the mornings on the bus visiting my husband in hospital.  

I caught up with all twelve boxes by January 2019.  Joining the patches from each box as I went, and finished. Then life got in the way again........  See this post.  

Patchwork of the Crosses

I decided I wanted to quilt it.  I started quilting it just before Christmas and completed the first part of quilting at the weekend.  

I now cannot find the fabric to finish the quilt off with so a-hunting I will go!







Sunday 1 March 2020

1st March

Happy St. David's Day

..........Daffodils made by me..........

From ‘Under Milk Wood’
Every morning when I wake,
Dear Lord, a little prayer I make,
O please do keep Thy lovely eye
On all poor creatures born to die


And every evening at sun-down
I ask a blessing on the town,
For whether we last the night or no
I’m sure is always touch-and-go.



We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And Thou, I know, wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.



O let us see another day!
Bless us all this night, I pray,
And to the sun we all will bow
And say, good-bye – but just for now!
Dylan Thomas